Wooster Jazz Ensembles Concert Features Eric Gould Quartet

Will perform Friday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. in Freedlander Theatre

The College of Wooster’s Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos, under the direction of Jeffrey
Lindberg, professor of music, and Greg Slawson, jazz piano instructor, will perform
at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 31, at Freedlander Theatre, 329 E. University St.

The concert features the Eric Gould Quartet, which will perform original music and
arrangements of classical jazz favorites. Pia­­­nist, composer, and arranger Eric
Gould is chair of the Jazz Composition Department at Berklee and has taught at The
College of Wooster and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. His compositions have been
performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and commissioned and performed by the
Canton Symphony. Tenor saxophonist Bill Pierce is chair of the woodwind department
at Berklee. Drummer and percussionist Yoron Israel leads the Boston-based quartet,
High Standards. Bass player Leon Lee Dorsey has performed with luminaires such as
Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis and with big band standouts such as the Duke Ellington
Orchestra, and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.

The Wooster Jazz Ensemble will accompany the Quartet on Gould’s arrangements of “Tricotism,”
“Bohemia After Dark,” “If You Could See Me Now,” and “Mating Call.”

Also soloing is College of Wooster senior vocalist Thea Kwan, who will perform “April
in Paris,” by Vernon Duke and “Evil Gal Blues” by Dinah Washington. Sophomore saxophonist
Eric Guberman will solo in “Addi” by Duke Ellington.

Tickets are $10 and are available at Buehler’s Milltown and Towne Market, Lowry Center
Wilson Bookstore, and The Wooster Book Company. Students will be admitted free of
charge. For more information contact Jeff Lindberg at 330-263-2047 or jlindberg@wooster.edu.